"She's a real Goal-Getter, that one..."

[GoalGetter]

OH! And New Measurements Are In!

WOOT WOOT!!!

BF: 8/24: 15.1%, Today: 13.3 %

Weight: 8/24: 109 lb, Today: 105 lb

Fat weight: 8/24: 16.5, Today: 14lb

LBM: 8/24, 92.5, Today: 91 (BAD! I lost a pound of muscle, need to increase my cals a bit, just like Jodi predicted not long ago)

I'll be taking new pictures tomorrow. I am PSYCHED. Looks like I might reach my 12% goal way before October 19. I *might* even get down to like 10% after all, at this rate! Wow. I still can't believe those numbers.

You know what? I'm going to post a photo from MARCH of last year. One of the times I tried to lose weight. This was before we ever ran into that bitch-ass old lady later that year. I took these before pictures, on "Day 1" of a program I never even started. I got discouraged after looking at the photos and thought, "blah... i can't do this. There's no way."

I wish I could turn back time and bitch slap myself for thinking that.

These are pretty bad. Trust me. This is what I looked like when that lady saw me, as I hadn't really exercised since then. In fact, when she saw me, which was end of sept '03, i might have been even worse.

 

[Saturday Fever]

Hi Dreamy!

Don't lose too much muscle. Muscles on ladies are hot.

 

[GoalGetter]

Hi Dreamy!

Don't lose too much muscle. Muscles on ladies are hot.

Hey baby! I won't. WOrking on my meals right now as we "speak" to increase my calories a bit.

I loooove my new muscles, and I looooove not having a huge ass anymore, so believe me, workin' on it! Any suggestions?

 

[GoalGetter]

Food - Sept 22

Breakfast - 630 AM:

1/2 cup oatmeal
protein shake - 1 scoop +8 oz. water
Udo's Choice 2 caps

Mid-morning - 900 AM:

1 small apple
3 slices of turkey breast
1 cup of broccoli

Lunch - 1200 PM:

3 oz. chicken breast
1 cup salad (romaine and lettuce)
1 tbsp pesto dressing with balsamic vinegar

Mid-Afternoon - 300 PM:

3 oz. tilapia
1 cup broccoli

Pre-Workout - 530 PM:

1/2 MRP shake

Post-Workout - 630 PM:

1/2 MRP shake

Dinner - 900 PM:

3 oz. turkey breast
1/4 cup pearled barley
1 cup broccoli/onions

Total Calories: 1112 (I have to increase my calories starting tomorrow, more protein at lunch and dinner, more oatmeal and 1/2 scoop more protein powder at breakfast for now, and we'll see how that goes)

 

[dianas05]

Hey Ivy,
That's sounds like one heck of a workout! Glad you enjoyed it! That's an awesome before and after...your results are soooo motivating. What would you say that your bf% was in the pics? Keep up the hard work and great job! You'll achieve your goal in no time.

 

[dianas05]

One more thing, from where did you learn to customize your diet to get results? From your personal trainer?

 

[GoalGetter]

Hey Ivy,
That's sounds like one heck of a workout! Glad you enjoyed it! That's an awesome before and after...your results are soooo motivating. What would you say that your bf% was in the pics? Keep up the hard work and great job! You'll achieve your goal in no time.

YAYYYY! Yes, I am on CLOUD 9 RIGHT NOW. Seriously. Thank you!!!!!

My bf% in THOSE pictures, from march 2003 - hmmm. I have no idea. when i started exercising doing the pilates at the end of september then i was at either 26 or 28%, i can't remember for sure. it was an even number and it was 24 but it wasn't 30. haha! I'd venture to guess somewhere around there if not a little less in MARCH, since I am sure i gained some between march and september that year.

 

[david]

Hey GG! Just reading the last few post, you are freaking unbelievable!!! Awesome!!!!

I hope you don't end up "kicking my ass" al over the place when we meet up at the Hard Rock!!!!!

You're on helluva hard workin' gal!!!! Your pictures and journal prove it!!!!

 

[GoalGetter]

One more thing, from where did you learn to customize your diet to get results? From your personal trainer?

Well, actually by the time i got to him, i had already been researching this stuff for a while, and had JUST gotten certified as a personal trainer myself (though to this day i have ZERO experience training anyone else yet!). I've also learned a little more from other people on this website and a few other websites, as well as from my trainer. There's a ton of info out there, and I absorb as much as I can. A lot of what I get is conflicting info, I just have to remember to use common sense so I can differentiate between what's right and true and what's a myth or misinformation.

 

[GoalGetter]

Hey GG! Just reading the last few post, you are freaking unbelievable!!! Awesome!!!!

I hope you don't end up "kicking my ass" al over the place when we meet up at the Hard Rock!!!!!

You're on helluva hard workin' gal!!!! Your pictures and journal prove it!!!!

Thanks David! I promise I am not a violent person. I will use my newfound muscles for good, not evil! haha!

Seriously - i am SOOOO excited and happy right now. This has completly obliterated any crappy mood or feelings I had lingering from yesterday's shitty news.

Thanks for coming by here, you and everyone else who has been checking in on me (and putting up with my long-winded diatribes!). It's so encouraging and totally appreciated.

 

[dianas05]

If you're happy I'm happy!

Well, all I know is that you got MAJOR results in a short amount of time! It's almost unbelieveable to me, but you have pics to prove it.

That's what I thought about your diet knowledge...I'm the same way, I do research and them apply that info to my diet & training. I would like to start carb cycling once I get back to my regular regimen in 9 days (that's when I'm gonna be done with the new job position).

 

[GoalGetter]

If you're happy I'm happy!

Well, all I know is that you got MAJOR results in a short amount of time! It's almost unbelieveable to me, but you have pics to prove it.

That's what I thought about your diet knowledge...I'm the same way, I do research and them apply that info to my diet & training. I would like to start carb cycling once I get back to my regular regimen in 9 days (that's when I'm gonna be done with the new job position).

The major results - I hope you're not thinking i started like this photo two months ago! This photo is from march of last year!

Diet knowledge - still learning every day. That's impressive (and encouraging) that you are doing the same thing! Good for you!

Carb cycling - never really tried it, not on purpose anyway. Sometimes I just don't feel like eating certain things, and I listen to my body. That's something I'd like to read up on some more. Let me know if/when you start doing it, and the kind of results you start seeing.

 

[fantasma62]

Hey Ivy, I have to tell you, you have lit a fire under me. I feel that I can't fail now. You have lost a lot of weight and body fat and I am ....well, truly speechless...

Congratulations, you are a success story.....

 

[Jill]

GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!

Anything can be done when you put your mind to it. You should be so friggin proud of yourself. Nice

 

[dianas05]

Good morning Ivy ,

I know that you haven't start with the way you were in the pic, but still I think you've gotten MAJOR results by losing from 22% BF to 15%. Come on, those are some quick results and definitely motivational!

What do you plan to do today? With me it's the same old -- work -> come home and train -> sleep. This schedule really sucks because it doesn't allow me to do anything, but only 9 days left until I get back to my regular one.

I hope you have a great day! BTW, I'm looking forward to seeing your new pics.

 

[Sapphire]

You are the BEST!! Sooo inspiring!!!!!!!!! Awesome job Ivy, seriously!!

 

[GoalGetter]

Good morning Ivy ,

I know that you haven't start with the way you were in the pic, but still I think you've gotten MAJOR results by losing from 22% BF to 15%. Come on, those are some quick results and definitely motivational!

What do you plan to do today? With me it's the same old -- work -> come home and train -> sleep. This schedule really sucks because it doesn't allow me to do anything, but only 9 days left until I get back to my regular one.

I hope you have a great day! BTW, I'm looking forward to seeing your new pics.

Hey Diana! Good morning, to you!

Haha... today - more of the same: work, workout, cook, eat, sleep. Oh and since my friend is out of town, i have to jog over to his building and feed his cats and clean out the litter box (that's my Friday night good times for ya!).

Hey hang in there - 9 more days and then you'll be set! You're building character!

My new pics - I think I'm gonna take them myself at my apartment. I don't want to parade around the gym in my bikini for some reason. There are a lot of clients there on Fridays since it's my early day. So I might take 'em at home. My 12-week photos are the ones that really matter, and these 8-week photos are just for my own and my trainer's records.

Alrighty - got some work to take care of if I plan to ditch this place at 230 today! I'll be around!

Good mornign to everyone else! Sorry if I don't visit your journals until much later! Gotta get all this done here!

 

[GoalGetter]

You are the BEST!! Sooo inspiring!!!!!!!!! Awesome job Ivy, seriously!!

Thank you!!!!!

 

[GoalGetter]

Hey Ivy, I have to tell you, you have lit a fire under me. I feel that I can't fail now. You have lost a lot of weight and body fat and I am ....well, truly speechless...

Congratulations, you are a success story.....

Fiiiiiiiiiiire! (you know like that song in the BK commercial)...

Thanks Tony. You can't fail now and you couldn't fail before, either. You're going to do great, man. Just keep with it. Remember who you're doing it for!

 

[GoalGetter]

GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!

Anything can be done when you put your mind to it. You should be so friggin proud of yourself. Nice

I am! Sometimes! And sometimes I'm super duper hard on myself for not doign BETTER (insane, I know...).

Thank you, Jill. You and the rest of the gang here are so supportive and encouraging and motivational, yourselves! I can't say that enough. So glad to have found this little community.

 

[Rocco32]

Hey there cutie! Great journal here and again, awesome progress!

 

[GoalGetter]

Hey there cutie! Great journal here and again, awesome progress!

Thanks Rock!

 

[GoalGetter]

Nutrition Question (and I'll post in nutrition forum too)

While my main focus is on getting lean, I do LOVE my new muscles, and was just a tad disappointed to learn I'd lost a pound of muscle during the last four weeks.

I'm going to repost my diet here, usually what I post is what I eat for the next five or six days, as I cook my food and portion it out on sundays or wednesday nights.

If anyone could give it the once-over and make a few more suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Here goes:

Breakfast - 630 AM:

1/2 cup oatmeal (140 cals, 41 carb, 4 prot)
1 scoop of protein shake (110 cals, 23 prot, 2 carb) This mornign i added 1/2 scoop more (total now 165 cals, 34 prot, 3 carb)
2 caps Udo's choice EFA blend
1 cap ester c
1 cap 1000 mg Lysine
1 multivitamin
1 cap 1000mg biotin

Mid-Morning - 930 AM:

1 small apple or a pre-packaged 1/4 cup serving of unsweetened apple sauce (50-65 calories)
3 slices of turkey (60 calories)
1 cup of broccoli (25 calories)

Lunch - 1230 PM:

4 oz. chicken breast (188 cal)
1 cup of salad (and by salad i mean romaine lettuce, red onions)
1 small sweet potato or 1/3-1/2 cup of oatmeal
1 tbsp pesto dressing with extra virgin olive oil

Mid-Afternoon - 330 PM:

3 oz. Tilapia (and when I remember, 3 fish oil caps)
1 cup broccoli

On weights days, 1/2 of a myoplex Lite MRP, pre-workout 5:30

workout usually between 6 and 730.

After workout, the other half of the MRP

Dinner - 9 PM:

4 oz chicken (or fish, or turkey)
1 cup broccoli and onions
1/4 cup pearled barley or brown rice (on non-weight days, i skip the starchy carb, should I just keep it there from now on?)

Sometimes about 1/2 hour later, I'll poke my finger in the peanut butter jar (natty pb of course) and just have a taste, but because I LOVE peanut butter and can't think of having just a 2 tbsp serving, i prefer not to make anything with it.

I usually go to sleep about 10 or 1030, so I don't eat again, however, if I'm up late, I'll have either another 1/2 of a myoplex MRP shake, or a protein shake (1 scoop plus 8 oz. water and 3 fish oil caps, at 1130 or midnight)

As for water - I drink 4-5 L a day if not more. And I've cut back on the coffee again.

I'm thinking I need to increase the protein in some of my meals, and take more fish oils. Not sure where to add those. Jodi had originally suggested to take them with my protein shake as my mid-afternoon meal. however, now that i've replaced the protein shake with an actual protein/veggie combo, I'm not sure where they fit in. Unless it IS ok to take them even if I'm eating carbs. I thoguht the rule was protein and carbs or protein and fat, but never all three together and never carb and fat together.

Any ideas, suggestions, guidance would be welcome. Thank you!

 

[GoalGetter]

Here we go again...

Another f*cking hurricane watch. I just got a mass-email from the company president telling us to call in on monday before showing up to work, depending on how the hurricane situation pans out over the weekend.

ARRRGHHHH!

I can't wait for my two days of South Florida winter.

 

[david]

Another f*cking hurricane watch. I just got a mass-email from the company president telling us to call in on monday before showing up to work, depending on how the hurricane situation pans out over the weekend.

ARRRGHHHH!

I can't wait for my two days of South Florida winter.

Hey GG!!

I know, I am supposed to be in Orlando Tomorrow again and it's SO CRITICAL of why I was going to be there and low and behold, they say, the brunt of the stomr is passing through Melbourne!!!

 

[GoalGetter]

Hey GG!!

I know, I am supposed to be in Orlando Tomorrow again and it's SO CRITICAL of why I was going to be there and low and behold, they say, the brunt of the stomr is passing through Melbourne!!!

That bites, David. Sorry to hear that

 

[jstar]

Hey Ivy!

Be careful down there with those Hurricanes!

I love this journal and you have come such a long way, not just physically, but in the way you eat, train, and push yourself harder and harder. I think this journal personifies the true meaning of dedication and determination

In response to your question on changing your diet - I would say bump your calories up slightly, say 100-200. I would think that since you are so close to your goal you don't need to make any big changes to what you are doing. Just increase the overall calories slightly to keep your metablism humming along. I would add the calories to your post workout meal..carbs and protein - to ensure you are recovery from those INTENSE workouts. Keep it up..you are in the home stretch now!!!

 

[Jill]

Pics

 

[GoalGetter]

Pics

I didn't take them. I have no excuse, except that I feel so crappy (this cold/sore throat) that the thought of putting on a bikini and parading around the gym made my skin crawl (even though one thing has nothign to do with the other!).

I will probably just take 'em here at home as I might have mentioned earlier... Tonight some time. I'll post something. just got in right now - gotta go feed my friend's cats *meow*.

Oh Jill i found this sugar free, fat free ice cream and totally thought of you for some reason, though I don't know if you can get it where you live. I tried the butter pecan, and if you can get past the "rubbery" consistency (you can press it down with the spoon and it expands back up, like a sponge or rubber ball or something), it actually tastes pretty good. 35 cals for a 1/2 cup serving, 0 fat, 0 sugar, 13 carbs. questionable contents maybe (polydextrose, maltodextrin, cellulose, carrageenan, etc.)... www.lukesicecream.com They were giving out free samples at the grocery store. Why is "diet" food always so suspect in one way or another!? Funky ingredients, funky consistency. Sad.

 

[GoalGetter]

Hey Ivy!

Be careful down there with those Hurricanes!

I love this journal and you have come such a long way, not just physically, but in the way you eat, train, and push yourself harder and harder. I think this journal personifies the true meaning of dedication and determination

In response to your question on changing your diet - I would say bump your calories up slightly, say 100-200. I would think that since you are so close to your goal you don't need to make any big changes to what you are doing. Just increase the overall calories slightly to keep your metablism humming along. I would add the calories to your post workout meal..carbs and protein - to ensure you are recovery from those INTENSE workouts. Keep it up..you are in the home stretch now!!!

Hey Jstar!

Thanks! It's so awesome to "hear" things like that. Keeps a girl revved up! Good stuff to come back and read through when my spark's out!

As for changing my diet - thanks for your suggestions. I was thinking something along those lines - something early in the morning, bigger breakfast, and/or bigger post workout meal (like what i'm about to have now -- rawr!).

Confession: For some reason in my illogical mind, I still fear that eating more will make me fat. I'm scared of making a mistake with my diet and screwing up the progress along the way. Like I'll wake up back at 135lb in a few days or something!